
Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.... (Full plot summary below)
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Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.
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| Slant MagazineRob HumanickSimultaneously both archetypal Tyler Perry and another step in the direction of nuance and thoughtfulness for the filmmaker. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanPerry holds back on the finger-wagging, eye-bulging tantrums. There were moments when I was grateful for that. There were others, like the kissy scenes between Perry and Newton, when I began to miss them. |
| MovielineAlison WillmoreWhile Wesley is both too good to be true and an absence of a charisma on screen, Good Deeds is very fair to its two main female characters even as they're both entangled with the same man. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeWhat the film needs more than anything is Perry's alter ego, Medea – a rampaging bowling ball who might knock all these stiff, upright characters spinning. |
| The A.V. ClubSam AdamsAs Wesley Deeds - get it? - Perry is stripped of Madea's fat suit and fright wig, but his performance is so muted, he might as well be swaddled in cloth. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonGood Deeds is relentlessly unsurprising in its plotting and borderline comical in its melodramatic flourishes. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriWatching the impossibly dry and somnambulant Good Deeds, you actually miss that crazy side of Perry. It's sort of ironic: Here's a film about a guy who's being false to his true self, and you realize the director might be doing the same. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis soapy effort about a prosperous businessman having a midlife crisis finds Perry working in the heavily melodramatic mode that marks his weakest efforts. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe melodramatic film has numerous light and comical touches, and the performances are uniformly good. The film's pace, however, has the consistency of molasses, and there's hardly a scene that wouldn't be improved by judicial trimming. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThis film - like all the Madea-free dramas - could use more humor. Still, every Perry movie has its highs and lows. This time, the highs are a little higher, and the lows not quite so low. There is no faith-based message, but the moral is obvious: persistence pays off. |